Re: [PATCH] make ds1wm driver to check ds1wm_platform_data pointer against NULL

["eric miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>]

On Nov 11, 2007 1:08 AM, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:02:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> > > @@ -351,6 +351,10 @@ static int ds1wm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >             goto err0;
> > >     }
> > >     plat = pdev->dev.platform_data;
> > > +   if (!plat) {
> > > +           ret = -ENXIO;
> > > +           goto err0;
> > > +   }
> > >     ds1wm_data->bus_shift = plat->bus_shift;
> > >     ds1wm_data->pdev = pdev;
> > >     ds1wm_data->pdata = plat;
> >
> > I don't understand this change.  Could you please provide some more details
> > regarding what problem it is solving?  How can pdev->dev.platform_data==NULL
> > come about?
>
> If I understood correctly, it is posible to call platform's probe
> callback without previously calling platform_device_add_data() to setup
> platform_data.
>
> But actually I failed to find any user of this platform driver in
> vanilla kernel, so it is hard to say if driver is used properly or not
> by external modules, and thus this change is very likely valid.
>
> --
>         Evgeniy Polyakov
>

Yes, that's exactly what this patch meant to prevent. That no use of
this platform driver in vanilla kernel doesn't mean the check is
unnecessary. Actually, from the code of this driver, the platform_data
is mandatory for the driver to work properly.  Well, if an oops is
on purpose when platform_data == NULL, this is, I agree, completely
unnecessary.

-- 
Cheers
- eric